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Business Exit Strategies
Family-Owned and Other Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This book analyzes various business exit strategies for both family-owned businesses as well as other businesses, both in the United States and throughout the world. Approximately 80% to 90% of all businesses in the world are family-owned. The book discusses, among other things, 12 common mistakes...
by Jaime de Melo
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Differences in the choices of trade and macro policies, both by developing countries and by developed countries towards developing countries, have been critical in determining the overall performance of developing countries. All too often, the performance of developing countries has not been assessed...
by Vipin K Agrawal, Ramesh K S Rao
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
A corporate manager typically oversees several ongoing projects and has the opportunity to invest in new projects that add wealth to the stockholders. Such new projects include expanding the corporation's existing business, entering into a new line of business, acquiring another business, and so on....
Growth with Inequality
An International Comparison on Income Distribution
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
In the era of globalization and liberalization, the world is enjoying high growth as well as suffering from the ill-effects of unequal distribution of its economic outcomes. The activities of anti-government demonstrations in China and across the world via the Occupy Wall Street Movement highlight...
The Floating World
Issues in International Trade Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
In The Floating World, Emeritus Professor of Economics Wilfred Ethier collates 22 papers that delve deep into the study on International Trade Theory. These papers are grouped into six distinct sections. Each covers an overarching research program in trade theory — Factor-Endowments Theory, Economies...
Labour Economics and Public Policy
Managing the Labour Markets for Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This book serves as a textbook on labour economics and public policy in labour markets.
It also shows how Singapore has been successful in establishing a world class labour market. One attribute of such a labour market is the high purchasing power of wages for the average worker for essentials...
Quantitative Financial Analytics
The Path to Investment Profits
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the important aspects of investment theory, security analysis, and portfolio selection, with a quantitative emphasis not to be found in most other investment texts.
The statistical analysis framework of markets and institutions in the book meets...
by László Székelyhidi
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The theory of hypergroups is a rapidly developing area of mathematics due to its diverse applications in different areas like probability, harmonic analysis, etc. This book exhibits the use of functional equations and spectral synthesis in the theory of hypergroups. It also presents the fruitful consequences...
Global Derivative Debacles
From Theory to Malpractice
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
This book analyzes in depth all major derivatives debacles of the last half century including the multi-billion losses and/or bankruptcy of Metallgesellschaft (1994), Barings Bank (1995), Long Term Capital Management (1998), Amaranth (2006), Société Générale (2008) and AIG (2008). It unlocks the...
Legal Basis of Global Tissue Banking
A Proactive Clinical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
The banking of human tissues for clinical transplantation has grown exponentially in the past 10-15 years. Tissue banks have been set up throughout the world, initially on an ad hoc basis. More recently these have grown and in many countries have linked up with larger international companies. While...
by Chitat Chong, Qi Feng, Theodore A Slaman;W Hugh Woodin
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
This volume is based on the talks given at the Workshop on Infinity and Truth held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, from 25 to 29 July 2011. The chapters cover topics in mathematical and philosophical logic that examine various aspects of the foundations...
by Barry E Prentice, Darren Prokop
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Transportation is the world's largest invisible industry. Modern society is completely dependent on transportation to sustain its way of life, and it is all around us constantly. Yet the economics of transportation is a mystery to most people. Why do air fares rise and fall? Why do urban transit systems...
Asian Free Trade Agreements and WTO Compatibility
Goods, Services, Trade Facilitation and Economic Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
It is an appropriate time to rethink the relationship between trade regionalism and multilateralism in the Asian context as we witness the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) in Asia. In the 1980s and 1990s, many scholars and policymakers believed that Asian integration was market-based,...
How I Saw It
Analysis and Commentary on Environmental Finance (19992005)
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
From 1999 to 2005, Richard L Sandor wrote a monthly column for Environmental Finance magazine. The column was called "How I See It", and with this latest publication, Sandor has compiled all of his articles into one comprehensive historical analysis and commentary on the field of Environmental...